Blog

STAGE & SCREEN ICONS TO STAR IN SWEENEY TODD

SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by Hugh Wheeler   Exclusive to Sydney and Melbourne - 6 performances only in each city.   13 - 16 June: Darling Harbour Theatre, ICC Sydney 20 - 23 June: Her Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne   “Sweeney Todd is one of the most exciting and innovative musicals in the genre’s history...

THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA GREEN ROOM AWARD NOMINATIONS

Life Like Company is thrilled to announce that The Light in the Piazza has been nominated for four Green Room Awards this year!   Now in their 34th year, the Green Room Awards honour the best in music theatre, cabaret, contemporary and experimental performance, dance, independent theatre, opera and theatre companies.   A total of 66 awards will be presented at this year’s awards ceremony, taking place at Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre on 27 March.   Our fabulous and much loved Musical Director, Vanessa Scammell, has been nominated for Musical Direction (Music...

City of Angels Green Room Nominations

The Life Like Company office was buzzing last week with the news that City of Angels has been nominated for six Green Room Awards!   Each year the awards honour extraordinary performance works in Melbourne through seven categories: Music Theatre, Contemporary & Experimental Theatre, Dance, Cabaret, Independent Theatre, Opera and Theatre Companies.   The winners in each category are decided by a panel of highly experienced judges, and will be announced at a star studded ceremony on March 21st at the Comedy Theatre.   For Female in Supporting Role, cast member...

City Of Angels steams up Melbourne this November 

Winner of six Tony Awards and 2015 Olivier Award winner for Best Musical Revival, City of Angels is set to thrill and delight Melbourne audiences when it plays at the Playhouse Theatre, Arts Centre Melbourne, for four shows only from November 5 to November 8. Tickets on sale from Ticketmaster on Friday August 7. Produced by Life Like Company, this new Australian production of City of Angels stars Kane Alexander, Amanda Harrison, Anton Berezin and Chelsea Plumley, all of whom are truly some of Australia’s most...

Pivotal extra scene added to musical PASSION

A rarely performed scene from Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Tony Award winning PASSION will be added to Life Like Company’s new production, playing four nights only at Arts Centre Melbourne from 5-8 November, 2014.   Helpmann Award nominated director Neil Gooding is thrilled to have the opportunity to offer some clarity to the complex story of PASSION for Melbourne audiences, with the inclusion of a revelatory scene between Giorgio Bachetti (Kane Alexander) and Doctor TambourrI (John O’May), including the powerful rendition of No One Has Ever...

Announcing the musical masterpiece PASSION

Life Like Company is proud to announce a new production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s widely acclaimed, TONY Award winning musical PASSION, playing four nights only at The Playhouse, Arts Centre Melbourne from 5-8 November, 2014.   The complex landscape of the human heart is the subject of PASSION, a haunting, intensely emotional musical by the uncompromising creators of Into The Woods and Sunday In The Park With George. The original Broadway production of PASSION received 4 TONY Awards including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical...